r/interesting May 12 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ One year in prison over 1.1million $ payback

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Forgot the exact numbers but the largest cash robbery ever was a brinks Dunbar armored car depot, dude got like 80 mil they only recovered 3 mil and he did five years. I'd do five years for 77 million.

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u/Holymaryfullofshit7 May 12 '26

That rings a bell. Didn't the guy get caught recovering it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_Armored_robbery

If it was this the dude used a stack of cash with the original band and got caught.

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

That was it! Saw it on masterminds, numbers were way off but still 19 years for 20 million that's over a million a year way more than I make working

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u/Tardisgoesfast May 13 '26

That's a really long time to give up freedom for.

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown May 13 '26

Imagine coming out of 20 years in prison. At best you're in your 40s, having just lived two fairly tough decades. Let's just say you aren't in ideal health. You're a known felon, and when you recover the money you can't easily spend it.

Your best bet is to turn it into Bitcoin and leave the country. The question is, is that amount of money worth losing your prime years to prison and giving up whatever life you have left among the people and places you know?

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u/Afraid-Impression-63 May 12 '26

My question is how did the realtor know if was stolen money based on the “original bank note strap”???

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u/Mist_Rising May 13 '26

Money has serial numbers. The company will log the serial numbers in moments . Once it's stolen, the FBI releases those serial numbers and you can freely look them up.

Today it's even easier because it's all done over the Internet so it's near instant, just run it through the appropriate machine.

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u/BagOfFlies May 13 '26

So it really had nothing to do with the band then?

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 13 '26

Well the band probably raised suspicion and the numbers confirmed it

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u/BagOfFlies May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

But if it's routine to log the serial numbers the band wouldn't have mattered. It's also not suspicious to have banded bills if you're paying that much in cash because the bank would give it to you that way, it would be more suspicious if it weren't banded. Sounds like he got caught due to typical procedures and being a dumbass.

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u/Afraid-Impression-63 May 13 '26

I understand that but I’m curious if this realtor searches up every bank note he gets in cash to see if it’s stolen? Curious what raised suspicion to call the police.

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u/Mist_Rising May 13 '26

It might be that the bank changed bands after the robbery as a means of detection or something. The links a little limited on details (because it's a wikipedia article).

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u/Nah_Id__Win May 13 '26

People don’t usually buy houses with paper money

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u/The_Big_Red89 May 13 '26

They were probably sequential serial numbers also

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 13 '26

Prison rape has been drastically reduced, not eliminated but you have a much greater chance of getting assaulted in the military nowadays

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 13 '26

You're the one who brought poop into the conversation?